Career
Ravera qualified for the men"s 100 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 56.86. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including three-time Olympian Aleksandr Agafonov of Uzbekistan. He rounded out the field to last place by five hundredths of a second (005) behind Iran"s Babak Farhoudi in a lifetime best of 56.47.
Ravera failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-second overall out of 71 swimmers in the preliminaries.